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Those edges are kept raw through a self-proclaimed addiction to live performance. Kate just released her third live album entitled “Broken.” A Hendrix-inspired, runaway train version of “Autumn Leaves.” “Over the Rainbow” done on a cheap guitar, exposes an as yet unnoticed haunting melancholy. A sauntering rendition of “Lady is a Tramp.” A courageous approach to an intimidating list of jazz standards, indeed. Add a blistering version of Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much” (not to mention a better-than-the-original cover of George Michaels’ “Father Figure”) and you might wonder, “What kind of music is this?!” Move over Folk/Punk, Kate has something a little meatier … Folk/Monk. Folk informed by the unconventional, angular wit of the jazz great Thelonious Monk. Everything old is truly new again.